I just returned from backpacking Cirque of the Towers- another completely foreign experience. Real mountains are super awesome. We saw multiple Momma Mooses. We also saw a pika:
http://images.google.com/images?q=pika&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=aTCnSvP3I5PQtgPSkvTCBQ&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1, although I didn't get a good look at it because it was scurrying away. I'd never heard of them before, probably because they're fairly mountainous, but they're really cute. Also really endangered, sadly. They freeze to death in winters when it doesn't snow enough and their burrows aren't insulated. (Ironic to freeze to death due to global warming and warmer winters...)
But anyway, enough bio nerdiness from me.